2 CENTRAL LEADER, NOVEMBER 17, 2010
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Stolen Car Recovered
In Remuera, at about 1.30am last Tuesday, a Matrix Security officer
on green reflector patrol noticed a suspicious vehicle in Stoneyroyd
Gardens. The car was driven into Remuera Road and the security officer
organised a vehicle registration check. The vehicle was identified as
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Doctor makes life-saving sacrifices
By JUSTIN LATIF
Old equipment: Dr Richard Wong She with the older operating microscope used by his
team at the National Burn Centre.
Photo: JUSTIN LATIF
OPERATION
Text HEAL to 4740 to donate $3.00
The Mad Butcher and Suburban Newspapers Community Trust
Top burns specialist Richard Wong
She will miss part of his daughter s
13th birthday on December 3.
But that s a sacrifice he is willing to
make for his patients.
Dr Wong She is asking you to con-
sider paying a much smaller price to
help the National Burn Centre at
Middlemore Hospital get the equip-
ment it desperately needs.
He will be among those attending a
Mad Butcher and Suburban
Newspapers Community Trust
fundraising dinner on his daughter s
big day. The evening is being held as
part of the trust s Operation Heal -- a
project aimed at raising $200,000 for a
state of the art operating microscope.
Dr Wong She says the microscope
will make sure about 100 people a year
receive the operations they need.
It will help burn victims, breast can-
cer patients and those needing serious
limb injuries repaired.
What we re using now is almost a
decade old.
The new microscope allows us to
take a block of tissue, transpose it and
plumb it into the arteries and veins of
a new part of the body.
We have seven surgeons who
specialise in this type of procedure but
only one-and-a-half older microscopes.
It s like having a team of courier
drivers but only one old van.
One patient eager for the arrival of
the new microscope is 15-year-old Jimi
Harper.
The wall of his stomach was blown
out by a stray 11,000 volt powerline
and he s been waiting since 2003 for an
operation to properly repair it.
The operation is not possible with-
out this microscope, Dr Wong She
says.
So we will be able to finally fulfil
that promise to Jimi and his family
that we made seven years ago.
Dr Wong She also had to skip a nine-
year-old daughter s birthday this year
because he was training junior doctors.
He says missing important family
milestones is necessary when lives are
at stake.
It s hard having to explain to my
daughters why I missed their recitals,
birthdays, and prizegivings.
But I m willing to make these
sacrifices because I know I can make a
big difference.
The Mad Butcher and Suburban
Newspapers Community Trust will
hold a corporate charity dinner at
Auckland s TelstraClear Pacific
Events Centre on December 3. Guest
speaker Prime Minister John Key will
be interviewed on stage by broadcaster
Paul Holmes during a night of glitz
and glamour to raise funds for the
National Burn Centre.
The evening starts at 7.30pm and
will include live and silent auctions as
well as music from the band Black
Salt.
A cheque will be handed over to the
National Burn Centre at the end of the
night.
Tickets cost $1850 + GST for a table
of 10 or $185 + GST per person. Call
Shandall on (09) 531-5910 for more
information or email shandall@mad
butcher.co.nz.
Go online to
www.central
leader.co.nz
to see Dr
Richard
Wong She
explain why
New
Zealand's National Burn Centre
needs your support.